Archive - Sustain What

A Look at Nature-Based Strategies for Sustaining Shorelines in a Changing Climate

I’m republishing a Mongabay story that powerfully informs the coastal life my wife and I chose in downeast Maine two years ago, describing a…

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C is for Climate, H is for Hope, M is for ... Maslow?

My Sustain What chat with Betsy Kolbert and Bill Weir on their engaging and very different climate books

Apr 22 •

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Facing the Urgency of Now, Here's How to Act for the Future, Too

A chat on the great new PBS seris "A Brief History of the Future"

Apr 20 •

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The Many Harms of Cancer-phobia

Deep fear of cancer often leads to decisions that fly in the face of what is medically sensible and encourages choices that cause great harm.

Published on Sensible Medicine • Apr 19

It's Essential to Act on Climate Emergencies Unfolding on a Heating, Flooding, Fiery Planet but a Mistake for Biden to Declare One

A Watchwords entry on #climateemergency - clarify terms and then pursue actions.

Published on Sustain What • Apr 18

Lessons for Survival, from the Bayou to the Bronx

Two books explore paths to community-wide resilience

Apr 12 •

Moving from "Waste Not" Aphorisms to Action - One Town and Product at a Time

How to be a "Marge" - a driver of local change

Apr 9 •

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Don't Look Up - Make Indirect Eclipse Viewing Fun Instead

Don't fret about eclipse glass fakery

Apr 8 •

Interview: Matt Scott of Dave's World, Leading Maine Heat Pump Installer

A story from the Great Electrification of America

Published on The Weekly Anthropocene • Apr 8

M4.8 New Jersey earthquake shakes Northeastern United States

Largest earthquake in the region in 140 years

Published on Earthquake Insights • Apr 5

How Risk in Climate Danger Zones Can Skyrocket With or Without Climate Change

Check your community's "expanding bull's eye"

Apr 3 •

A Reminder that the Great Clamorous Climate Debate is Swamped by Real Life

And what to do about that

Apr 1 •

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